{"id":53133,"date":"2011-08-11T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53133"},"modified":"2011-08-11T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T21:45:38","slug":"amputee-presses-on-competes-in-canoe-kayak-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=53133","title":{"rendered":"Amputee presses on, competes in Canoe &#038; Kayak National Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An accident in 1998 left George Rickman with his right leg amputated, after he fell 40 feet at a construction site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rickman said he thought he never would recover from the accident, but after receiving prosthetics and a little encouragement, he not only rebounded, but began competing for national kayak championships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Middleville resident was one of six physically disabled athletes to compete Tuesday in\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/outdoors\/index.ssf\/2011\/08\/middleville_amputee_presses_on.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accident in 1998 left George Rickman with his right leg amputated, after he fell 40 feet at a construction site. Rickman said he thought he never would recover from the accident, but after receiving prosthetics and a little encouragement, he not only rebounded, but began competing for national kayak championships. The Middleville resident was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53134,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53133\/revisions\/53134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}